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How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:01:02 GMT

You've heard about 13 tips to comment your code, but what about the One Single Tip?

LINQ Framework Design Guidelines

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:46:04 GMT

New set of design guidelines from Krzysztof Cwalina's team.

Command Window

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:16:04 GMT

A brief introduction the the Command Window.

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

Retaining Good Developers - 10 Things To Keep Them Happy

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:46:02 GMT

This is a great article. I just wish some of my previous employers would have done just a few of these things. I probably would have stuck around longer.

XElement and friends

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:48:27 GMT

Some basic Xml document construction with the System.Linq.Xml namespace

Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C#

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:01:04 GMT

Simple and generic implementation of singleton factory in C#.

Those old C bit tricks

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:30:31 GMT

Something just for fun on a Tuesday evening while the wife is out. :)

Implementing Interfaces: ICloneable and IComparable

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:31:02 GMT

A friend of mine was showing me about some common interfaces and some good use cases for them the other day. A discussion arose of how to accurately create a deep copy of an object and the best way to go about it. Shortly after that discussion we got into the Sort() method and how to dictate how that method will sort your objects. This is when he spilled into telling me all about these common interfaces.

Solving circular reference serialization with WCF

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:46:05 GMT

A extremely easy to use alternative to the PreserveObjectReferences option in datacontractSerializer. This way much nicer XML is created.

EntitySpaces 2008 - Dynamic SubQuery Showcase

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:31:02 GMT

EntitySpaces, LLC will be delivering substantial SubQuery horsepower in its 2008 release. The EntitySpaces DynamicQuery API (just one of the features of using EntitySpaces) has proven to be a very powerful tool for .NET developers.

Extending DebuggerVisualizer - visualizing data as a graph in the debu

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:07:25 GMT

Brief example of showing how to create a data visualizer for the debugger in Visual Studio. In this case, the visualizer draws a graph of a collection of points.

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:01:03 GMT

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of my blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this list.

Three levels of extension methods

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:46:02 GMT

Some tips for building up C# 3.0 extension methods to solve problems, from wrapping static framework classes, to creating missing methods, to performing business logic validation.

Douchebaggery

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:31:02 GMT

To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:46:03 GMT

Ever curious how much memory that suspect object is hogging on the heap? Find out quickly and easily with a few lines of code.

Basics - Anonymous Types outside the scope of Linq

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:15:57 GMT

Basics - Anonymous Types outside the scope of Linq

The most basic Xml reader using Linq and XElement

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:04:56 GMT

Shows the most basic example of reading in an Xml document (via XElement) and extracting information from it via Linq